We've tried. It's hard when he injects lies into a Linux conversation, possibly misleading lurkers who don't know the facts. Just putting down his lies is becoming a full time job.
Did you like the Lyons article, where I specifically, concretely listed the "inaccuracies and misrepresentations" in that smear campaign of an article? GE of course rushed to defend him. When caught, he reverted to personal attack as usual. GE lives on smear campaigns against Linux at everybody's expense. The sad thing is, in my defense of Linux, I don't really personally prefer Linux for most situations (which is where I wildly differ from many Linux proponents here).
Did you know we have a GE scorecard? One of the FReepers keeps it. It contains the about seven standards rants you'll see in any GE thread hijacking, and it's usually posted (mostly filled) when GE shows up.
Or if it is as bad as you say, get him a perma-ban.
Admin's choice, not mine. Given the temp ban, they know he's here and what he's doing. Besides, lies are best countered with fact, not by censoring them.
If he took the bait so quickly as you claim you couldn've/should've called him out much sooner and ended the lie.
Probably, but baiting him whenever he came in to hijack a thread was too fun, the payoff building each time. I guess one thing that kept it going for so long is that I would never get a reasoned response to it, just the usual paranoid rant. Any attempt at rational discussion by GE would have taken all the fun out of it, so I surely would have ended it sooner had he been capable of such.
since you admitted to lying I've got to give him more benefit of the doubt over your description
Therein lies a problem -- I admitted. See what you get for doing the right thing? GE doesn't admit, and I've given you the examples showing he prefers instead to engage in libel, ad hominem and misdirection when faced with facts in opposition to his claims.
You seem to credit him for not coming clean. Quite biased and unfair IMHO.
ROFL, you already tried to claim I had lied on this thread, when all it has turned out to be is more lies from you and your normal endless defense of radical leftists and hackers.